Suddenly and unexpectedly, the great-grandmother herself, Mrs. Eva Weiss, asked to speak
The uniqueness of the occasion was not lost on those present.
When Mendel Weiss spoke at the sheva brachos of his granddaughter, he mentioned the zechus of having his mother, the great-grandmother of the kallah, present at the simchah.
Mendel spoke with great passion about how his mother, now 96 years old, had foreseen what was in store for Hungarian Jewry.
In 1944, she escaped with her mother and two brothers from Ungvar to Budapest and eventually arrived penniless on America’s shores. Mendel explained that the family had left their wealth behind when they left Ungvar.
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